I rearranged my TV bench yesterday. I removed my VCR and the laptop is no longer connected to the TV for viewing downloaded videos. I moved the DVD player up one floor and moved the PS2 to the side. It almost looks as if I was clearing space for something. What could it be?

I have been slacking a little lately with updating the site. The reason is that something else has been hogging much of my attention. Namely… (more…)

New Roomba

I sent my iRobot Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner for service some time ago. There were no big problems with it. I basically wanted to grease the wheels that had started squeaking a little, but iRobot support refused to answer if and how I could do this myself without voiding the warranty. (more…)

I wrote a long time ago about how my Creative MuVo TX mp3 player had become a bit glitchy. Whenever the headphone connector was moved to the side the volume went to max for a fraction of a second in a deafening “boom”. (more…)

My old car stereo is not very good. It can only play cassettes, the display is broken and sometimes it dies when you adjust the volume. I’ve been using a cassette adapter together with my mp3 player when I’ve wanted to listen to my own music.

My dad gave me a 2GB USB stick for my birthday and I’ve been using it to bring mp3s to work. Yesterday it hit me that there just have to be car stereos with a USB port that can play mp3s off a USB stick. (more…)

Roomba in docking station

Cleaning your home can be satisfying but it’s also very very boring. I’ve estimated that I have to vacuum my apartment at least two times a week (preferably more often) to keep it tidy. I’m way too lazy to do that. This is where the Roomba enters the picture. It’s a robotic vacuum cleaner that offers to do the dirty work for you. The Roomba has its limitations but I’m glad I bought it. (more…)

I bought a Polar F6 pulse watch (you know, one of those things that checks your heart rate that you can use when you work out) today. I went to my regular Body Balance practice expecting it to be in my “moderate” heart rate zone. OK, I’ve been ill, but during most exercises I was in my “hard” zone and in “moderate” when relaxing or stretching between the exercises. It’ll be interesting to see if this changes as my cardio gets better.

The thing that impressed me the most about this watch was a very small detail. You can download your own logos! You download a wav-file and play it with the watch next to the speaker. *chirp-chirp-chirp* and then you have a Hello Kitty logo on your watch

If you have the watch then you can get it at Polar’s site, but here it is anyway (if you have another watch model, then check Polar’s site):

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(You go go to the settings menu and when it says “Settings” you play the wav-file with the watch next to your speaker. It will say uplink failed or uplink OK. If OK, hold “back” and then hold up arrow to show the logo.)

You can also download a program to make your own logos, but I haven’t tried that yet.